Oud-politici: Franse minister verspreidt desinformatie over VN-rapporteur

The terminal shutdown caused chaos and disorganization of Russian units, which Ukrainian forces exploited Ukrainians pushed Russians from Novoaleksandrivka, Verbove, and Vyshneve in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, expelled them from Ternuvate and Kosivtseve euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/18/a...

OTD in 2022 i denied any invasion would happen. So you can believe my promises about peace now.

Landen vrezen de Amerikaanse ‘kill switch’ en kopen liever Europese gevechtsvliegtuigen www.trouw.nl/buitenland/l...

'Yuriy Ignat, head of the communications department of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has denied reports by a French outlet claiming that foreign pilots are involved in protecting Ukraine’s airspace.' www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...

“Wederom toont de uitspraak aan dat de toelating van pesticiden zo lek is als een mandje. Waar de wet haar burgers beschermt, lijkt de overheid steeds de belangen van de gifgebruikers vooral te beschermen. Dit systeem moet echt op de schop.“

PFAS kost EU landen komende jaren 440 miljard NL: op één na grootste aantal vervuilde PFAS-locaties "Sukkels. Capitulatie voor stikstof- en PFAS- waanzin. Wat nu nodig is, is forse versoepeling van doorgeslagen regels" (Geert Wilders 29 okt 2019) PVV helpt multinationals nos.nl/artikel/2602...

Loosing patience with X 📉 New poll shows 70+% support for taking further actions against X and amongst those supporting action, many consider not only fines but also a ban. The investigations by the @ec.europa.eu into X are backed and poll corroborates public support for platform regulation.

Luchtvaartmaatschappijen krijgen nog steeds een waanzinnige hoeveelheid gratis CO2 uitstoot rechten en dat gaat nog jaren door. En voor vluchten buiten de EU is het nog slechter geregeld.

"Cassidy and McConnell could do a literal world of good if they spent the rest of 2026 speaking out against Kennedy and joining his Democratic critics in calling for him to be removed from his job." That, or another miracle, would be amazing.

🇪🇺 Council of European Union to formally adopt €90bn Ukraine loan package on 24 February

⚡️🇺🇦 Ukraine achieved its biggest battlefield gains in 2.5 years last week, — AFP From Wednesday to Sunday last week, the Ukrainian military managed to recapture 201 km² of territory - this area is practically equivalent to the territory that Russia captured in all of December.

Footage of a Ukrainian Patriot SAM system shooting down a Russian 3M22 Zircon hypersonic cruise missile near Kyiv last night. This appears to be the first ever footage of a combat shootdown involving a HACM.

🇨🇿🇺🇦 Petr Pavel: If we look at the past period, since the creation of the initiative, it has delivered about 4,4 million units of large-caliber ammunition to Ukraine. Last year alone, it was almost two million.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

“Asked how the cuts have affected science, one [researcher] said, ‘This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals? This is a generational loss of innovation, technology, and economic power.’” 🔗 archive.ph/2026.02.12-1...

"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug

OTD in 1921 Soviet invasion of Georgia began. Less than a year before we signed a treaty with them promising we'd never invade. Lying we won't & then invading anyway is a tradition I maintain to this day.

Je wil de wc gebruiken en de persoon die net daarvoor de boel ondergescheten heeft vertelt je hoe je het schoon moet houden.

Initially, Chinese officials may have been concerned about the economic consequences of Russia’s war, but they have come to see it as beneficial to Beijing because it means Europe is focused on Ukraine rather than Asia, and relations between Europe and the United States have become strained.

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies. It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Ursula von der Leyen haalt uit naar Mark Rutte (eindelijk). l.euronews.com/XfU9

Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque discusses the privacy risks ICE observers and protesters now face, given the agency’s surveillance practices and tools. Although there are steps the public can take to protect itself, lawmakers ultimately need to enact meaningful policy reforms.

🇩🇰🇺🇦 Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen: Our problem in Ukraine is still that there are red lines when it comes to the weapons they can use to win this war. And you cannot win a war with one hand tied on your back. We need to give them weapons so they can strike into Russia.

Such a powerful image in Le Monde. (The writing on the plane says "Neutral athletes") Cartoon by: Letton Gatis Sluka

EPA ERASES SCIENCE & POWER TO REGULATE CLIMATE

Two Middle Strike FP-2s attack one target simultaneously 😍 "Happy Valentine's Day! In honor of the holiday, I'm posting a 'double penetration' video from Fire Point." — Fire Point manager Denis Stiler “Double breasted” #russianLosses #UkraineNews

On behalf of heavy industry, German chancellor Merz attacks a core EU climate policy, the EU-ETS, which puts a price on CO2 emissions: "We should be very open to revising it, or at least to postpone it". EU's @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu defends its benefits. www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

Bundeskanzler Merz stellt das EU-Emissionshandelssystem (ETS) in Frage. Das trifft innovative Unternehmern wie Heidelberg Materials im Kern. Wer die Spielregeln mitten im Spiel ändert, zerstört das kostbarste Gut der Wirtschaft: Vertrauen und Investitionssicherheit.

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Ukraine’s F-16 sweeps the skies clean of russian filth 🇺🇦

Vertoning onthullende documentaire Boerocratie over macht agro-industrie afgelast na bedreigingen www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Opeens hoor je niemand over dubbele paspoorten.

Kwekers snijbloemen overtreden massaal regels: gebruiken te veel of verboden gif: www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne... Het houdt niet op hè, met die industriële boeren. Zij (een kleine groep) verpesten het voor de duizenden goedwillende vee- en akkerboeren die wel om de mens geeft. Helaas blijven zij stil.

🔥❗️🏹 With the first shot, a desperate soldier of the 24th brigade shoots down a Russian drone on emotions and positivity.

Poland’s Sejm has adopted a decision allowing citizens to fight for Ukraine without criminal liability. Previously, participation in a foreign war was punishable by up to five years in prison. The new law also applies to Poles who had already received sentences. #Ukraine

Republican Senator Graham said Ukraine should be given long range Tomahawk missiles to hit critical infrastructure underpinning the Kremlin’s military machine. He argued that providing such weapons from the US would significantly bolster Kyiv’s position and change the balance of the war. #Ukraine

The problem with the US politicized regulation of the pharmaceutical market wil have global consequences. It means less innovation, higher prices, and slower or not developed vaccines, putting everyone worldwide at risk.

In an interview with Christiane Amanpour, historian Robert Kagan says all major US institutions have buckled before Trump. Only the people are resisting, he says, citing the scenes from the streets of Minneapolis which utterly infuriate Trump and his cronies, driving them to lethal violence.

🇺🇦 Mezhivskyi direction: In the area of Novopidgornoe, a demonstrative trend is being observed, with the enemy increasingly surrendering their weapons. Quantitatively, there are no exact figures yet, but the fact of systematicity speaks for itself: the enemy's moral and psychological state is

Due to the blocking of Starlink, Russians are forced to climb high-voltage power lines to set up Wi-Fi bridges and install repeaters. But Ukrainian FPV operators find them even there.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

GREAT: Rejecting science, Trump reverses conclusion that climate change is harming Americans www.latimes.com/environment/...

Europe will only be free when we are fossil free. We need an independent Europe, free from reliance on foreign fossil oligarchs and autocrats. Yet instead of backing green innovation, leaders push for deregulation. Our tax money should fund European jobs and autonomy, not the US or China.

ICYMI: Comer may have just made another blunder, and unlike his past blunders as Oversight chair, this one might make it impossible for him to simply pivot away.